Re: Newbie backreference question

2005-06-30 Thread paulm
George Sakkis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Did you have a look at my other reply ? It's still the same, just > change the regexp: > > import re > a = 'test string two' > b = re.match(r'test \w{2}(.+)', a, re.DOTALL).group(1) > print b > > By the way, if you want to catch any single character (

Re: Newbie backreference question

2005-06-30 Thread paulm
Larry Bates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > a='test string' > print a.split()[:-1] > > I'm assuming that you want the last space separated word? > > Larry Bates > > > paulm wrote: >> Hi, >> In perl I can do something like:

Newbie backreference question

2005-06-30 Thread paulm
Hi, In perl I can do something like: $a = 'test string'; $a =~ /test (\w+)/; $b = $1; print $b . "\n"; and my output would be "string". How might this snippet be written in python? Thanks to all... -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list